After lots of cleaning and chores, then some rain I went to Valmont with a new board. I waxed up the ledge real good while the puddles dried up. I love skating a new deck at a ledge spot first. I started with the ol’ no ollie noseslide routine and I felt pretty good. Then I started ollie’ing into them and still felt good. Got a f/s one to forward which is rare. Crooks happened quick. Back 50 took a bit. Front 50 happened with no pain in the groin which surprised me. I got a front 50 shove on the middle section that hyped me up enough to put a little dumpster after the loading dock and try to ollie it. But I never ended up committing. Oh well. Back to the ledge I hucked a bunch of tricks. Had a few front tails that actually slid I minute amout. I tried a bunch of nollie flips in between and didn’t even get my feet on it this time. I tried kickflip noseslides for awhile. It took me the time it took a cute fuzzy caterpillar to walk the entire length of the ledge. The one I got was another crappy one where I didn’t lock in. I did get close to locking in a few times though. Had a good nollie varial flip, a few 360 flips that I landed perfect and didn’t ride away from for some dumb reason. Got a kickflip back 50. Tried front crooks for awhile without success. Tried back 180 nosegrind without getting close. Did a couple dork tricks off the loading dock. Got tired and left for home happy that I didn’t have much pain.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)